Google has introduced the first of at least two Olympic-themed interactive doodles to celebrate London 2012. The doodle lets you get in the spirit of the games as an armchair, and keyboard, athlete. Tuesday’s doodle features a hurdle race where you control the runner with your keyboard’s arrow keys and spacebar. If you miss a hurdle, your runner will knock it over and slow down, but you get to keep going unhurt, unlike (SPOILER ALERT) what happened Tuesday to China’s Liu Xiang in the first rounds of the men’s 110m event.
Once you’ve finished your race, you can try again for a better time, share your result on Google+ or hit the search button to be taken to search results for “London 2012 hurdles.” The doodle also features a three-star rating similar to popular games such as Angry Birds. You can also follow a link to the Google doodles gallery to view all the recent Olympic-style doodles produced so far.
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